Beverage bases merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc.

Holden, MA · ~113 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. runs at 346% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverage bases merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc.: 7.6 TCR = 346% of Beverage bases merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. safety composite

Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc.: 5.9 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.2 from 5.9 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Holden, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 346% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Jack Hilliard Distri…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jack Hilliard Distributing Co, Inc - Pasadena (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. averages 7.6 TCR (346% of the Beverage bases merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. falls in its industry

1,278 Beverage bases merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Beverage bases merchant wholes employers in Massachusetts.

Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. (113 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc.
Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. (113 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. has more employees than the Beverage bases merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 8.1 6.5 8 2 0
2023 6.9 4.3 8 0 0
2022 7.3 7.3 5 0 0
2021 9.7 3.2 9 0 0
2016 5.9 5.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · MA · Holden

1,278 Beverage bases merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 13 employers in Holden, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Jack Hilliard Distributing Co, Inc - Pasadena 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PEPSI COLA BOTTLING CO OF PIPESTONE 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR C014 Norfolk 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIAMI FL (MEDLEY) 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brattan Industries 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patriot Beverages 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Belchertown LLC 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Erving Industries, Inc. 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holden Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Y Foods, Inc. Holden 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holden MB 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodmeister Master Builders 94 FTE
NAT-TCR Omni Berkshire Place Hotel 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bedford County Board of Education Maintenance Department 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Club Vacations Inc. Hill Country Resort - HOSP 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Green Assisted Living 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Texas Roofing Co., Inc. 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sabre industries Tubular Structures 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Retirement of Mesa 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE G&W Commercial Flooring Inc 113 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.